The kitchen house
By: Kathleen Grissom
Edition: Large print edition.
Publisher: Large Print Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Detroit, Mich
Language: eng
Number of pages: 624
ISBN-13: 9781594136443
Copyright date: 2010
Subjects: Fiction; Indentured servants; Slaves; Plantation life
Description: "Oprhaned aboard a ship from Ireland, seven-year-old Lavinia arrives on the steps of a tobacco plantation where she is to live and worth with the slaves of the kitchen house. Under the care of Belle, the master's illegitimate daughter, Lavinia becomes deeply bonded to her adopted family, though she is set apart from the by her white skin. Eventually accepted into the world of the big house, where the master is absent and the mistress battles opium addiction, Lavinia straddles two very different world. Then she is forced to make a choice"--P. [4] of cover.